"Are you perhaps a rather porous 'rock', Mr Burrell, given how much leaked out into letters, interviews and books?"Richard Keen QC, for the family of Henri Paul, questions Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, who described himself as her "rock" (January 16 2008)

"I was at the hub of the wheel and everyone else was on a spoke."Burrell on his role in the princess's life (January 14 2008)

"She called the princess a whore and she said that she was messing around with 'effing Muslim men'."Burrell describes a conversation between Diana and her mother Frances Shand Kydd (January 14 2008)

"He married his crocodile wife and he is happy with that."Mohamed Al Fayed, claiming that the Prince of Wales was involved in Diana's death (February 18 2008)

"He grew up with the Nazis ... it is well known. He was brought up by his auntie, who marries Hitler's general. This is the guy who is now in charge and manipulating everything and can do anything."Fayed on the Duke of Edinburgh (February 18 2008)

"You want to have his original name? It ends with 'Frankenstein'." Fayed on the Duke of Edinburgh (February 18 2008)

"He started ranting at me. He was talking about Prince Philip and he was also talking about the British government. He was swearing a lot."Former bodyguard Kes Wingfield on Fayed's reaction to his refusal to appear in a TV programme on the crash (January 29 2008)

"I find the suggestion, even though I respect your right to raise it, as totally abhorrent, offensive and would actually mean that I am a murderer or, in essence, part of a murderous conspiracy."The former Metropolitan police commissioner Paul Condon responds to Michael Mansfield's suggestion that he had been deliberately "sitting on" a letter in which Diana expressed fears for her life (January 17 2008)

"I would need marriage like a rash on my face."Diana's final conversation with Lady Annabel Goldsmith in which she ruled out any chance that she was going to marry Dodi (December 17 2007)

"We once went to the pub together, and Diana asked if she could order the drinks because she had never done so before."Hasnat Khan on his life with Diana (statement read March 3 2008)

"I remember one occasion when she told me about her weekend and she had been alone in those rather silent set of apartments. She had heated her own food in a microwave. I got the general impression that she was a bit lonely."Divorce lawyer Maggie Rae (January 15 2008)

"One of the regrettable features of this case is the number of people who, it appears, have told lies in the witness box or elsewhere. Some are liars by their own admission. I refer to James Andanson, Paul Burrell and John Macnamara."Lord Justice Scott Baker, the coroner (March 31 2008)